Martin Fowler learns the lesson that Dave Winer has been teaching:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/writing-fragments.html

“Trump's incontinent belligerence”

from https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/

https://www.openculture.com/2022/07/walter-benjamin-explains-how-fascism-uses-mass-media-to-turn-politics-into-spectacle-1935.html

In particular, using spectacle to give everyone a platform to sound off without any real ownership in the world.  Sort of bread and circuses, where everyone’s a critic with no skin the game but strongly felt opinions?

https://interconnected.org/home/2025/12/05/training

Some things I hadn’t thought about, re internet-based marketplaces and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program

The tech described takes advantage of a sensor developed for experimental music in Slovakia, along with banging a metal plate with a hammer, something I used to do daily 🙂

An informal survey of my recollections of gun incidents over the past decade makes me feel that the major dividing line between gun violence perpetrators and the general public is not ethnicity but gender.  Therefore, I propose that we immediately stop granting visas to men, and allow only women and minor children to come to the US.

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I had a similar experience my first day in Chiang Mai as I did in Dublin, overwhelmed by tourist tat.  It seemed like lots of tourists roaming around looking at each other. It wasn’t until day two that I started to see past it to the reality.

We were at a photo exhibit about a local area within the old city, and all the captions said the same thing: Chiang Mai is drastically different than it was, all the families have moved away and those remaining are aging.  For some, the tourist explosion is a plus, allowing them to, for example, change jobs to become a tour director or sell more of their art, but for many it’s felt as a loss.  The people we meet are lovely,  but they are very focused on serving us in their many roles.  It doesn’t feel like I’m making a connection.

cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~coopes/comp319/2016/papers/UbiquitousComputingAndInterfaceAgents-Weiser.pdf

yes! And from 1992.

Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
— Read on climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

Yup yup. Waiting for creaky US infrastructure to catch up. Like watching England get leapfrogged after the Industrial Revolution.